Patents Assigned to Service
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Patent number: 8424603Abstract: A method of treating a subterranean formation comprises providing a treatment fluid comprising: an aqueous fluid; a gelling agent, and a multifunctional boronic crosslinker comprising two or more boronic functional groups; and introducing the viscosified fluid into a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: David M. Loveless, Rajesh K. Saini, Jimmie D. Weaver
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Patent number: 8428976Abstract: A method of determining a renewal deductible for an insurance policy includes providing a computer having a processor, determining that a default deductible is less than a current deductible, and determining that a new deductible indicator is negative. The method includes retrieving, using the processor and an available deductible key reference, a plurality of available deductibles from a third table and determining, using the processor, that the plurality of available deductibles does not include the current deductible. The method further includes setting the renewal deductible equal to the available deductible of the plurality of available deductibles higher than and closest to the current deductible if the next higher deductible indicator is in a positive state and setting the renewal deductible equal to the available deductible of the plurality of available deductibles less than and closest to the current deductible if the next higher deductible indicator is in a negative state.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: United Services Automobile AssociationInventors: Jeromy Laverne Johnson, Michael Hongmin Chan
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Patent number: 8429037Abstract: Techniques for performing an accounts payable process may include receiving transaction data including at least one of invoice data, purchase order data, and vendor data; and verifying a transaction by matching a dynamic data set of client-specified multi-dimensional criteria to the transaction data. An accounts payable system may include a host system in communication with one or more client systems. The host system may include a matching database configured to receive an accounts payable file including at least one of invoice data, purchase order data, and vendor data; and verify a transaction by matching a dynamic data set of client-specified multi-dimensional records to attributes of the accounts payable file.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.Inventors: James S. Stone, Greg Domaracki
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Patent number: 8424387Abstract: An apparatus for detecting defects in a railway rail includes a search unit and preferably a roller search unit (“RSU”) mounted on a test vehicle and in rolling contact with the running surface of the rails to inspect each rail. The RSU includes a tire filled with a liquid and a transducer assembly mounted within the tire. The transducer assembly includes one or more arrays of ultrasonic transducers directed toward the running surface of the rail. A laser profiler mounted on the test vehicle in combination with a linear encoder provide profile data which is communicated to a system controller to dynamically adjust the focal laws for the one or more arrays of transducers to dynamically steer the transmitted beams to produce the ideal inspection beam sets while the test vehicle is in motion.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Herzog Services, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey B. Wigh, Richard L. Ebersold, Troy L. Elbert, Timothy J. Coolman
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Patent number: 8428618Abstract: A system provides location-based services through an enhanced mobile device. The system determines a current location of the mobile device, and determines whether the current location of the mobile device falls within one or more geographic regions defined in a database. If the current location falls within one or more of the geographic regions, the system identifies services available within the one or more geographic regions that the mobile device is determined to be within. The system generates a customized menu based on the identified services and displays the customized menu on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Andrew E. Fano, Scott W. Kurth
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Patent number: 8428973Abstract: A system implemented on one or more processors for automatically disabling mobile device usage while driving may comprise at least one subsystem configured for determining whether a mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than a predetermined threshold and at least one subsystem configured for disabling a functionality of the mobile device if it is determined that the mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than the predetermined threshold. The at least one subsystem configured for determining whether a mobile device is traveling at a speed greater than a predetermined threshold may comprise at least one subsystem configured for receiving output data from an accelerometer on the mobile device and at least one subsystem configured for using said data to determine a current speed of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventor: John C. Hopkins, III
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Patent number: 8426379Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for diagnosis and treatment of carcinomas with aberrant expression patterns of POT 1. The invention also provides methods of identifying compounds that may modulate the cellular expression of POT 1. The invention further provides methods for treating subjects suffering from or at risk of developing a colorectal carcinoma.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human ServicesInventors: Qin Yang, Curtis C. Harris
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Patent number: 8429519Abstract: A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructions for indicating the data sources and how the data sources should be queried. The processing instructions may also indicate how the data is to be grouped across various slides, pages, sections, etc. The generator may build the presentation based on the template, its tags, and its processing instructions. The resulting presentation may be accessed by a user-friendly application, such as a word processor, slide program, spreadsheet, report viewer, or other application. The user may update part or all of the presentation using information on the queries and data sources embedded in the presentation itself.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Michael T. Parks, Steven B. Petchon
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Patent number: 8424755Abstract: An automated banking machine operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records in the form of user cards. The machine includes a printer for printing paper records of transactions conducted at the machine. The printer receives paper from a shared paper path. The shared paper path can be supplied by a first paper supply and a second paper supply. A controller is operative to switch between the paper supplies in providing paper to the printer. Based on signals received from paper sensors in the machine, the controller can determine whether the first paper supply has reached a predetermined low level. In response to a low level determination, the controller acts to cause a paper drive to begin moving paper from the second paper supply to the shared paper path and then to the printer.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, IncorporatedInventors: Sathish M. Irudayam, Marcelo Castro, John E. Williams
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Patent number: 8425901Abstract: The invention generally features compositions and methods based on the structure-based design of alpha 1-3 N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (alpha 3 GaINAc-T) enzymes from alpha 1-3 galactosyltransferase (a3Gal-T) that can transfer 2?-modified galactose from the corresponding UDP-derivatives due to substitutions that broaden the alpha 3Gal-T donor specificity and make the enzyme a3 GaINAc-T.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Pradman K. Qasba, Boopathy Ramakrishnan, Elizabeth Boeggeman, Marta Pasek
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Patent number: 8424455Abstract: An explosive tool is disclosed. The explosive tool comprises a body structure, a charge, a detonator to ignite the charge via propagation of thermal energy, a pressure actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to a surface pressure and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the pressure actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined pressure threshold, and a temperature actuated safety to prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to a surface temperature and to not prevent propagation of sufficient thermal energy to ignite the charge when the temperature actuated safety is subjected to at least a predefined temperature threshold. The charge, the detonator, the pressure actuated safety, and the temperature actuated safety are contained within the body structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Donald L. Crawford, II
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Patent number: 8429112Abstract: A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a business opportunity to understand and solve optimally. Mistakes are noted and remedial educational material presented dynamically to build the necessary skills that a user requires for success in the business endeavor. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized video and graphics used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. A robust business model provides support for realistic activities and allows a user to experience real world consequences for their actions and decisions and entails realtime decision-making and synthesis of the educational material. The system is architectured around a table of components to manage and control the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Eren Tolga Rosenfeld, Ekpedeme Mfon Bassey, Beth Elyse Zadik, Martha Torrey O'Connor, Alexander Han Leung Poon, Eric Jeffrey Lannert, Tracey Andrea Solomon, Jonathan Christian Conant, Alexander Zorba, Carl Michael Puccio, Timothy John Gobran, James Andrew Gilchrist, Mark Stewart Nichols, Brandon Denning Fleisher, Craig William Friedman, Adebisi Detoro Lipede, Matthew Allen Bailey
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Patent number: 8425116Abstract: A guide bushing for a tensioning rod in a vertical pulverizer includes a bushing body having a substantially cylindrical interior bushing surface configured and adapted to moveably engage a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer. The bushing body is divided circumferentially about the bushing surface into a plurality of sections joined together. The sections are configured and adapted to separate from one another for installation and removal of the bushing body about a tensioning rod of a vertical pulverizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Babcock Power Services, Inc.Inventors: George King, Joshua Creelman, William Freeman
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Patent number: 8428960Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for processing of an original batch of documents in which any document of the original batch that fails to comply with the predefined specification is identified to be a non-compliant document. At least one non-compliant batch is then formed that contains the non-compliant documents. The non-compliant batch is distinct from at least one compliant batch that contains any documents that do comply with the predefined specification. At least one of the non-compliant and compliant batches advantageously includes a plurality of documents. The complaint batch(es) may then be forwarded for further processing without awaiting rework of the non-complaint documents included in the non-compliant batch(es).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.Inventors: David L. Bonham, Anil Kumar, Richard J. Runkel, Jamison M. Stamps, Amanda Starr
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Patent number: 8425620Abstract: A joint assembly for releasably securing a first and a second segment of an associated modular limb is provided. The joint assembly includes a male connector including a base and a load bearing blade secured to the base of the male connector protruding therefrom. The male connector is adapted to be secured to one of the first and second segments of the associated modular limb. A female connector is provided and includes a base and a load bearing socket secured to the base of the female connector. The socket is configured to selectively receive the blade of the male connector. The female connector is adapted to be secured to the other of the first and second segments of the associated modular limb. A locking member selectively retains the blade of the male connector in the socket of the female connector. The male connector, the female connector, and the locking member cooperate to form a resilient and selectively releasable modular limb joint.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: HDT Engineering Services, Inc.Inventors: Ezra Johnson, W. Travis Lontz, Thomas W. Van Doren
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Patent number: 8427638Abstract: Optical measurement devices including one or more sealing assemblies are described. The sealing assemblies are configured for use at relatively high temperatures and pressures, such as temperatures over 200 degrees F. and pressures over 10,000 psi. The sealing assemblies can include a deformable seal element surrounded on each side by a backup seal element. In some examples, the deformable seal element is formed of a material selected from a group consisting of a fluoroelastomer or polytetrafluoroethylene, and the backup seal elements are formed of a material selected from a group consisting of flexible graphite or metal foil. Optionally, at least one additional seal element functioning as an extrusion barrier can be placed on the opposite side of one or both backup seal elements from the deformable seal element. The additional seal element can be formed of polyether ether ketone or flexible graphite, for example. Additional devices and assemblies are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Robert Atkinson, Christopher M. Jones, Michael T. Pelletier, Nathan Harder, Robert J. Murphy
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Patent number: 8427903Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring a subsoil zone, wherein a plurality of receivers are arranged on a surface of the soil or near said surface, straight above a geological zone to be monitored, comprising the following steps: generating a set of reference seismic data recording seismic data by means of said receivers; correlating the seismic data recorded (52) with the reference seismic data; comparing each trace of the correlated data, with correlated traces located in a vicinity of said trace, in order to evaluate a similarity of each correlated trace with the adjacent correlated traces, detecting a microseismic event occurring in the subsoil zone by analysing said similarity. This method enables real-time monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: CGGVeritas Services SAInventor: Julien Meunier
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Patent number: 8424550Abstract: A method for operating a fluid drainage control system to drain a fluid from a fluid dispensation system is provided. The method includes determining a first ambient air temperature, determining if the first ambient air temperature is less than a predetermined drain set point temperature, isolating the fluid dispensation system from a fluid supply source by closing a supply valve located inside a temperature controlled area in response to the first ambient air temperature being less than the predetermined drain set point temperature, and draining the fluid from the fluid dispensation system by opening a drain valve subsequent to closing the supply valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Virid Services, LLCInventor: Jon Lips
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Publication number: 20130096159Abstract: Disclosed are inhibitors of human 12-lipoxygenase of Formula (I) or (II), wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as defined herein, that are useful in treating or preventing a 12-lipoxygenase mediated disease or disorder, e.g., diabetes. Also disclosed are a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and at least one inhibitor of the invention, and a method of treating or preventing such disease or disorder in a mammal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicants: The United States of America, as represented the Secretary Department of Health & Human Service, Thomas Jefferson University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: David J. Maloney, Theodore Holman, Ajit Jadhav, Anton Simeonov, Ganesha Rai Bantukallu, Jerry L. Nadler, Michael Holinstat
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Patent number: D680416Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: United States Postal ServiceInventor: Robert Dalton